The water sector is increasingly being impacted by climate change, it also contributes up to 10 percent of global carbon emissions from its energy consumption, as well as other greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide and methane from wastewater systems.
WaCCliM (the Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Change) is a project that defines a road map for water utilities and guides them towards energy and carbon neutrality.
IWA
Water underpins every aspect of human and environmental existence. The severe water challenges facing the world today require an unprecedented global response. IWA members and staff are situated in more than 140 countries worldwide, forming the large...
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Jedrzej Bylka December 5, 2016
Few people will remember 1936 as a year of transformational change for water management, yet it marked a departure point from the traditional way of thinking ab...
Chrysa Triantafyllidou November 4, 2015
Planners often depict a city as a human body. Transportation, communication, rivers and sewer systems become arteries and veins pulsing through the city; parks ...
Chris Shugart February 26, 2016
An inordinately high level of water losses – up to 50 per cent of water entering the distribution system – burdens water companies and customers in many dev...